Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Marcus Giavanni


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The result was delete. WP:SNOW. As this has previously been a target for recreation-after-redirecting by SPAs, a temporary dose of WP:SALT will also be applied. The Bushranger One ping only 12:37, 20 December 2015 (UTC)

Marcus Giavanni

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Non-notable local politician and self-styled "Google+ Conversation Authority and entrepreneur". Has run unsuccessfully for office as a write-in candidate 3 times (once for Governor of Colorado and twice for Mayor of Denver). Fails the notability criteria at both GNG and WP:POLITICIAN. The article had been redirected to Denver mayoral election, 2015 yesterday. However, two SPAs have now repeatedly reverted the redirect. This previous version of the article yields no other credible claims to notability. A search for further sources based on that version shows that during the 2015 Denver Mayor election he had a talk show on KFNX which also broadcasts paid programs, the sonic equivalent of advertorials. His show was sponsored by his own companies, neither of which are notable—SMO Worldwide and forsalebyownercompany.com—which he plugged on the show when not plugging his candidacy. I have no idea whether it is still being broadcast. His 1999 book is self-published (background here). Like UkPaolo, I believe a straight delete is in order rather than restoring the redirect. This was not a notable candidate in any of the three elections in which he ran. Voceditenore (talk) 15:14, 14 December 2015 (UTC) Updated by Voceditenore (talk) 07:45, 15 December 2015 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Colorado-related deletion discussions. Voceditenore (talk) 15:33, 14 December 2015 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Politicians-related deletion discussions. Voceditenore (talk) 15:37, 14 December 2015 (UTC)


 * Delete. I found trivial mentions, mainly in the context of the write-in campaigns, but substantial coverage from independent, reliable sources is absent. Fails WP:GNG and WP:POLITICIAN. --Hobbes Goodyear (talk) 15:47, 14 December 2015 (UTC)
 * Delete per nominators rationale. (and I do think delete, rather than go back to a redirect to Denver mayoral election, 2015 as had previously been the case) └ UkPaolo/talk┐ 19:14, 14 December 2015 (UTC)
 * Delete Also agree with UKPaolo that this should be a delete and not a redirect as Giavanni doesn't come close to nobility. Bgwhite (talk) 23:44, 15 December 2015 (UTC)
 * Delete Agreeing with opinions of above editors and WP:N as Marcus Giovanni is not notable enough to be on an encyclopedia..Zyc1174 (talk) 12:49, 16 December 2015 (UTC)
 * Delete. An unsuccessful candidate for office does not get over WP:NPOL on that basis, but may have a Wikipedia article only if you can properly demonstrate and source that they would qualify for a Wikipedia article for some other reason independent of their candidacy. But that hasn't been shown here, as there's no sourcing or substance about anything but his candidacies. Agreed that it's an outright delete and not a suitable redirect — nothing here suggests that he's remotely plausible as a topic that people would actually be looking for on Wikipedia. "Google+ Conversation Authority" certainly is not a substantive claim of notability, for the record — if I do a web search on that term with a "-giavanni" constraint to filter this particular one out of the results, there are just eight hits left of which every last one is an irrelevant string of SEO keyword salad in a page within Giavanni's real estate site that's already noted in the nomination. So none of them proves that anybody else really thinks that's a real thing, and accordingly I'm getting a distinct whiff of self-promotional WP:COI here even if I can't prove that outright. Bearcat (talk) 18:25, 17 December 2015 (UTC)
 * Delete per above and close per WP:SNOW.4meter4 (talk) 14:01, 18 December 2015 (UTC)
 * Strong delete per nom and others. Citobun (talk) 14:54, 19 December 2015 (UTC)


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